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• EPA celebrates future and former environmental cleanup and redevelopment projects in Denver

  Regional Administrator KC Becker joined by Congresswoman DeGette and other partners to highlight new $500,000 grant funding to City and County of Denver

  EPA News Release: EPA celebrates future and former environmental cleanup and redevelopment projects in Denver

  • Release Date: May 26, 2022

• EPA recognizes Colorado, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming manufacturing plants among most energy-efficient of 2021

  Seven plants among 93 nationwide receive ENERGY STAR certification

  EPA News Release: EPA recognizes Colorado, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming manufacturing plants among most energy-efficient of 2021

  • Release Date: March 15, 2022

• EPA and Colorado announce enforcement partnership to advance environmental justice goals

  EPA and CDPHE to meet with communities to get input and develop implementation plan

  EPA News Release: EPA and Colorado announce enforcement partnership to advance environmental justice goals

  • Release Date: March 9, 2022

• EPA awards $992,464 to Colorado State University for research to protect public health during wildfires

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $992,464 to Colorado State University for research to protect public health during wildfires

  • Release Date: March 8, 2022

• EPA awards $540,000 to Colorado schools for clean buses that reduce diesel emissions and protect children’s health

  Rebates to reduce emissions from buses in Adams, Boulder and Weld Counties, all in non-attainment area for Clean Air Act ozone standards

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $540,000 to Colorado schools for clean buses that reduce diesel emissions and protect children’s health

  • Release Date: March 7, 2022

• EPA proposes to disapprove revisions to Wyoming’s 2014 regional haze plan as inconsistent with the Clean Air Act 

  Wyoming’s revised plan for Jim Bridger power plant does not justify reversal of current approved plan to reduce 3,000+ tons per year of emissions and protect regional air quality

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes to disapprove revisions to Wyoming’s 2014 regional haze plan as inconsistent with the Clean Air Act 

  • Release Date: January 12, 2022

• Colorado and Utah projects among $77 million in grants for diesel emissions reductions nationwide

  EPA grants will result in cleaner vehicles, reduced emissions in air quality non-attainment areas

  EPA News Release: Colorado and Utah projects among $77 million in grants for diesel emissions reductions nationwide

  • Release Date: November 18, 2021

• University of Colorado Boulder researchers awarded $1.1 million for projects to reduce exposure to wildland fire smoke at school and at home

  University among nine grant recipients receiving $7 million to address health impacts associated with smoke

  EPA News Release: University of Colorado Boulder researchers awarded $1.1 million for projects to reduce exposure to wildland fire smoke at school and at home

  • Release Date: August 23, 2021

• EPA announces $200,000 to City of Fort Collins, Colorado to support Healthy Homes program

  Funding part of $50 million for Environmental Justice initiatives under the American Rescue Plan

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $200,000 to City of Fort Collins, Colorado to support Healthy Homes program

  • Release Date: July 13, 2021

• EPA names Denver and Boulder in lists of Top Cities for ENERGY STAR Certified Buildings in 2020

  Denver ranks 10th in top U.S. cities list while Boulder ranks eighth in top mid-sized cities list, cutting energy costs while increasing efficiency, reducing emissions

  EPA News Release: EPA names Denver and Boulder in lists of Top Cities for ENERGY STAR Certified Buildings in 2020

  • Release Date: June 15, 2021

• EPA reaches settlement with landowners in Duchesne County, Utah to restore Duchesne River and floodplain on Uintah and Ouray Reservation

  Karl and David Lamb to restore portions of the Duchesne River and floodplain impacted by unpermitted construction activities

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlement with landowners in Duchesne County, Utah to restore Duchesne River and floodplain on Uintah and Ouray Reservation

  • Release Date: June 10, 2021

• EPA redesignates Logan (Cache County), Utah to attainment for Clean Air standards for fine particulates

  Milestone in Utah’s air quality improvement efforts

  EPA News Release: EPA redesignates Logan (Cache County), Utah to attainment for Clean Air standards for fine particulates

  • Release Date: May 12, 2021

• EPA awards $500,000 to clean up 25 school buses in Region 8 states

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $500,000 to clean up 25 school buses in Region 8 states

  • Release Date: April 20, 2021

• EPA selects Groundwork Denver to receive $178,000 Brownfields job training grant to build a skilled environmental workforce in Sheridan, Colorado

  Groundwork Denver one of 18 organizations selected nationwide to support environmental job training in economically distressed communities

  EPA News Release: EPA selects Groundwork Denver to receive $178,000 Brownfields job training grant to build a skilled environmental workforce in Sheridan, Colorado

  • Release Date: March 15, 2021

• EPA announces grant funding to Bessemer Historical Society, Inc. (dba Steelworks Center of the West) to develop an urban agriculture project in Pueblo, Colorado

  Project will improve food access and long-term resiliency in neighborhoods near the Colorado Smelter Superfund site

  EPA News Release: EPA announces grant funding to Bessemer Historical Society, Inc. (dba Steelworks Center of the West) to develop an urban agriculture project in Pueblo, Colorado

  • Release Date: March 8, 2021